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A Classification approach towards Unsupervised Learning of Visual Representations

1 Jun 2018arXiv:1806.00428archive 2025-07-28

Aditya Vora

In this paper, we present a technique for unsupervised learning of visual representations. Specifically, we train a model for foreground and background classification task, in the process of which it learns visual representations. Foreground and background patches for training come af- ter mining for such patches from hundreds and thousands of unlabelled videos available on the web which we ex- tract using a proposed patch extraction algorithm. With- out using any supervision, with just using 150, 000 unla- belled videos and the PASCAL VOC 2007 dataset, we train a object recognition model that achieves 45.3 mAP which is close to the best performing unsupervised feature learn- ing technique whereas better than many other proposed al- gorithms. The code for patch extraction is implemented in Matlab and available open source at the following link .

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